by kdm | May 3, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Kathy C. Clayton form her book “Teaching to Build Faith and Faithfulness” taught: “Teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves.”1 Joseph Smith’s oft-quoted explanation of his theory of governance has long been a mantra...
by kdm | May 2, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
. . . . and his book ‘For Times of Trouble’: he quotes from Psalms 18:2, 30; 61:2, 62:6 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. . . . As...
by kdm | May 1, 2024 | #character, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, spiritually strong, The Plan
From Martha Branigan-Sutton and the book 50 things that really matter to Latter-day Saints: I remember doing customary “clapping” outside a forlorn slum in Argentina as a sister missionary. The makeshift houses were made of corrugated steel and scrap wood...
by kdm | Apr 30, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Max Lucado and his book “No Wonder They Called Him the Savior”: I’ve always perceived John as a fellow who viewed life simply. “Right is right and wrong is wrong, and things aren’t nearly as complicated as we make them out to...
by kdm | Apr 29, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from ‘Peace be Unto Thy Soul III’: Joseph L. Bishop writes: I could also easily understand that there can be a variety of trigger points to every level of Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief, waiting in the shadows to set off grief in...
by kdm | Apr 27, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Neal A. Maxwell and his book “All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience”: Afflictions can soften us, sweeten us, and can be a chastening influence. (Alma 62:41.) We often think of chastening as something being done to punish us by a mortal tutor who...